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title: Whit did the lassie say she'd dae tae the smith? — Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the lassie say she'd dae tae the smith? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 11 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

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Whit did the lassie say she'd dae tae the smith?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, lassie · **What happens:** do, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1143-pg3027-part9/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t11:1
# text = Whit did the lassie say she'd dae tae the smith?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lassie	lassie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	dae	dae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
9	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Whit |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the lassie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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burn him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t11:o1:1
# text = burn him
1	burn	burn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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hang him on the tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t11:o2:1
# text = hang him on the tree
1	hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | the tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on tree=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
hang him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t11:o3:1
# text = hang him
1	hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bury him in the wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t11:o4:1
# text = bury him in the wood
1	bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | the wood |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in wood=Destination |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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